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Yes, I said happiness. I was surprised that all the poll options were negative.

true, it's just as easy not to have control of positive emotions! Like when you learn that you have an interview for a job that you really really want or something of that sort... who's going to keep their happiness to themselves?

“The phrase 'Someone ought to do something' was not, by itself, a helpful one. People who used it never added the rider 'and that someone is me'.” - Terry Pratchett

true, it's just as easy not to have control of positive emotions! Like when you learn that you have an interview for a job that you really really want or something of that sort... who's going to keep their happiness to themselves?

Perhaps someone who has apsolutly not desire to get along with people around himself/herself ?

Perhaps someone who has apsolutly not desire to get along with people around himself/herself ?

Oh, I do that too, as I said, what I find hard to control is my apathy. :P

Still, there is never a 'need' to control positive emotions in the same way people might feel the 'need' to control negative emotions. I don't think people have problems with being postive like people have with being negative.

When I'm supremely pissed off, I don't know what to do , and it takes the form of crying( not full out crying, just tearing up)... ><! which pisses me off even more, and thus the cycle begins. LOL
and then I'll calmly tell myself ( in my head ) " you have to stop, they're going to think you're sad" and I take a breathe, and it stops. all of the sudden, which creeps people out even more . hahahaha

but definitely anger.

more than anger, its the feeling of "hopelessness with a dash of fear", which doesn't occur often, but only when a situation is literally out of my control, will I start feeling hopeless..leading to anger... leading to tears of anger...

however, hopelessness/w ADofF isn't really an emotion is it?

I'm rarely angry though, and the feeling of hopelessness/waDofF is even less common.

I'm usually pretty good with controlling my emotions. It's only when I'm around my insane family that I lose a little of myself...

From a biological standpoint, it seems like fear (anxiety?) and lust should be the hardest emotions for us to control, as they are directly linked to survival (fearing that which puts us in danger) and reproduction (hump me now!).

The others obviously all have primitive biological ties as well, but fear and lust seem to have the strongest link to biological imperatives.